Walking in to Sachin & Babi’s glittery, gown-filled studio can really make a girl wish she had a fancy occasion to attend. The designer couple are exuberant maximalists, and their Pre-Fall collection takes their flights of fancy to a new extreme. Nearly every piece is dripping with sequins or Lurex shine, even daywear, a category that is woefully underrepresented in the brand’s lookbook. For nighttime, cocktail and evening dresses are made brilliant by cascading paillettes, while for day, knit tube dresses feature bands of monochrome sequins just above a generous ruffle. The label’s top-selling bauble earrings add dimension to the couple’s fanciful vision of dressing up.

This is all bright and merry and well, but to really understand what Sachin & Babi does, you have to understand that there are whole communities of women for whom the act of dressing up and attending a fancy event is not an occasion but is any given Wednesday. To them, whether this season’s new floral echoes another brand’s too closely is irrelevant. When being ultra-glam all the time is your way of life, there’s no time to nitpick. With Sachin & Babi comes a guarantee that you will be the belle of your ball. As jolie laide trends take over the runways, that assurance of highbrow elegance is worth its weight in gold—or silver, because the label’s prettiest dress this season is covered in silvery sequins.